Thank you all for your wonderful and comprehensive suggestions. I love this list :) I have been sent to Brisbane for a few sit-downs so when I get back, I will open the dread document and try all your suggestions to see what the problem is. There are a lot of images and tables to delete in my future and a lot of template styles to wrestle with! Many, many thanks, guys! "It would only require one "update style automatically" option to be set in a style that is linked back to your base style and, well, really, god help you..." Indeed. Fingers crossed I didn't do that, but it happens and, yes...there really is the only one option: cry :) Amanda Subject: atw: Re: Help! All text has...disappeared on Print. Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 02:04:27 -0400 From: warren.lewington.ext@xxxxxxxxxxx To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx What happens when you View > Print Preview the document. I think if you see the document normally in this view, then you have a problem with print drivers or the ".dll" files associated to print drivers in MS Word corrupted. Reload Word or perform a detect and repair, which is a handy tool in this case. Some more thoughts are below. You sound like you already know all of this but here is my other take on it... My strong suspicion is that somewhere in your template, in the styles settings, there is a character style that has either set up a conflicting text font, or has for some reason been given either a white font colour or a hidden text setting in the style. Character styles can become embedded in documents if the standard styles are updated with the settings from the character style. It would only require one "update style automatically" option to be set in a style that is linked back to your base style and, well, really, god help you... Copy the styles into the document again from an uncorrupted template and see what happens. Default Paragraph Font is another option to try as well, by selecting the text in a paragraph and clicking on the option; do this before the next suggestion. If the Default paragraph font setting proves unsuccessful, I would highlight all text in the document and select "Clear Formatting" in the Styles and Formatting pane style selection list (this particular choice is usually hidden and must be selected in the "Styles Custom" window before you see it in your style lists. This will clear most character formatting problems and return your text to base styles, a real pain but useful. The other possible problem I can think of is that your own Normal.dot has corrupted, or, the "All Users" Normal.dot template has corrupted. These are sometimes responsible for assorted weirdness and yes, the "All Users" profile template can interplay with specific types of load found on networks. Regards, Warren From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Amanda Cat Sent: Tuesday, 1 June 2010 3:19 PM To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: atw: Re: Help! All text has...disappeared on Print. · Eliminate the printer or printer driver as the problem o Trying printing to a different printer. Are your printer drivers corrupt? No :( Four different printers in two different states! :) o Send the document to someone else and ask them to print it. Does the problem still occur? Yes. · Try a cut and paste into another document attached to a normal template and see if the result is the same. The text does appears if I cut and paste into another document and print. Hmmmm... If I attach the template to another document, it still prints. So the template itself seems fine... It seems to be just this one document. · Attach a different template to the problem document and see if the problem still occurs. Yes indeed it does still occur (I hadn't thought of that as I didn't want to change all the styles.) There is something in this document. Something nefarious. · Eliminate formatting as the problem o Select all the text in the document and then Ctrl+Spacebar. This will reset all manually applied formatting, then print. Nothing but the odd bullet and number. Curiouser and curiouser. o Change all the styles in the document to Normal and then try and print Still blank! Crazy times :) But I have salvaged the text so that's fine. Should I take this one document out the back, cap it and bury it? I think that's kindest... :) Amanda Mark Kofler CA Sr Technical Writer Tel: +1-610399446654 Mobile: +1-61401375219 Mark.Kofler@xxxxxx From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Amanda Cat Sent: Tuesday, 1 June 2010 2:36 PM To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: atw: Re: Help! All text has...disappeared on Print. No, not in text boxes - in fact, no text boxes in the doc at all. I accepted all edits, I deleted all comments, I turned on Draw <EveryDamnThing> in the Printer options... The solution is going to be very simple, I'm sure. But it's sure got me stumped. Love a good challenge. :) It's printed in OpenOffice, though, so that's something. The time-dependent nature of the emergency is gone. It's a puzzler, though! Many thanks, all. Amanda Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 14:27:30 +1000 From: maloneyn@xxxxxxxxxxx To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: atw: Re: Help! All text has...disappeared on Print. If all of the text is in text boxes ' REM unlikely, but just in case it is Then go into Printing options and turn on "Drawing objects" End If Neil. On 1/06/2010 2:09 PM, Amanda Cat wrote: Hey, gang, I have a Word document (70 pages with images and using a standard Word-generated style sheet). When I print or PDF it (still a form of printing), the images display, but there is NO TEXT. The odd bullet and number from a list is also displayed, but other than that, I get 70 pages of blank. I have saved it as a DOC, DOCX, RTF... I have reattached the style sheet. I have printed another document which uses the same style sheet - that prints fine. Is there some "Magic Printer Word Switch Thing(TM)" I have tripped that has disolved my text? Help!!! The Programmer is getting impatient and wants his hard copy to review and... I'm at a loss. Many thanks in advance, Amanda
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